The Grenada sentinel., 1887-03-26

the head with club, knocking niin Gown.
After rifiing his pockets tha thugs fled,
leaving no clew TO their identity. Doty
was conveyed to the County Hospital,
where it was found that his skull was
fractured.
DIR. RANDALL, a quack physician OF
rather unsavory reputation. was shot and
instantly killed in the courtroom at Hast
ings, Neb., on the 10Th, by an unknown
man, while undergoing preliminary ex.
animation on charge of criminal assault
on a girl eleven years OF age.
A GREAT deal of uncertainty exists as
to the actual number of lives lost in the
recent Buffalo holocaust. 1t is known
that nine are dead and about forty in.
jured, and it is feared that the clearing
away of the debris will reveal the re-
mains of several more victims.
Mrs. JAMES BRowN-PoTTER is said to
have secured very strong cast to sup
port her in her coming engagement at the
Haymarkeu Theater, London.
ANDREAs HofER great grandson OF
the Tyrolese patriot of that name, is
about to make his debut in a Berlin thea
ter in a drama written by himself on the
theme of his ancestor.
THE Prince of Wales left London on the
10th for Berlin to attend the festivities
consequent upon the celebration of the
ninetieth birthday of the Emperor Will
lam
LORD LoNsDALE's S recent theatrical vent
ures have so drawn upon his resources as
to impel him to sell at auction the cele-
brated collection of pictures and porce-
lains at Lowther Castle.
MAJOR d. N. BUSH, Paymaster U. s. A.,
is reported to have been robbed of $500
at Antelope Springs, Wy. T., by cowboy
named Charles Parker, who escaped on
horseback with his booty under fire of the
Major and his escort
THE President has pardoned Dennis Kel-
ley, Of Maine, convicted Of manslaughter,
and George Dabner, of Wisconsin, con.
victed of pension frauds. They have both
served their sentences, but this act re-
stores their citizenship.
SECOND LIEUTENANT j. H. j. WILCOX,
of the Seventh cavalry, was arrested in
St. Louis on the 10th on charge of being
absent without leave, and of duplicating g
his pay accounts. He has been sent to
Fort Smelling, Mimi, for trial.
MISS MARIE ENGLE, of Chicago, made a
brilliant debut at Covent Garden Thea,
ter, London, on the evening of the 10Th, in
'Martha." The Princess of Wales and
numerous visiting Americans were among
the audience.
THE Treasury Department has directed
that the issue of one and two dollar silver
certificates be resumed at the New York,
Philadelphia and Boston sub-treasuries.
A DAsTARDLY attempt was made by an
incendiary in Buffalo, N. Y, on the 10th,
to set fire to a tenement occupied by about
dozen families The fire, started in the
basement, in coal bin, was discovered
by some children, who extinguishcd it..
GREAT preparations are being made~at
Washington for the National drill, which
takes place there from May 90 to the Both.
JOHN ]. HoELzEL is under arrest in New
York on q charge of having tried TO poison
his uncle in Wisconsin.
The National Fish Commission are to
make an effort to re-stock the America n
coast waters with halibut.
CHRISTIAN AK, of the firm Of Gail & AK,
tobacco manufacturers, did on the Goth
at his home in Baltimore, Nd, aged sixty
four years.
By gunpowder explosion In the hous G
Of man named Foster, in the Indian
Territory, on the Goth, two of his children
were killed and himself and wife were Sc
riously hurt.
E. A. PERRY cables to the Boston Herald
that precedence in the British Commons
is definitely settled in favor of the Co
ercion bill over the new Land bill.
PLYMOUTH pulpit was occupied on the
Goth by Rev. j. W. Malcolm, Of the Seventh
Avenue Congregational Church, Brook
lyn. Dr. Abbott, who had arranged tc
preach, was too i'll to perform that duty
DIRECTIONS are being made to the plans
for reconstruction of the old st. Louis
post-office, it being regarded as mistake
to turn it simply into warehouse, when
more Office room is needed tor federal Of.
ficials.